Yr Australydd

Yr Australydd was an Australian monthly newspaper in the Welsh language published in Victoria between 1866 and 1872.

It was more specifically linked to the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist community, and devoted between a sixth and a quarter of its content to theological writing.

In its inaugural edition, editors explained that their objective was to "gwasanaethu ein cenedl mewn llenyddiaeth, moesoldeb a chrefydd" ("serve our nation in literature, morality and religion").

They requested and printed literary contributions from readers: poetry and short stories, as well as a serialised novel, Cymro yn Awstralia (A Welshman in Australia, 1870).

Publication began in Ballarat, was transferred to Melbourne in April 1871,[1] and ceased in 1872, for reasons which remain unclear.